this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight the military crackdown in myanmar the un's human rights investigator calls for sanctions against the general. ruling enters this seems to be the military lead by. example in gaining a crimes against the u.n. says at least 70 people have been killed in a violent crackdown on protests following last month's also coming up the

regulators approve the johnson and johnson single shot vaccine for use in the european union will this give europe's sluggish vaccination rollout a shot in the arm and japan warns that more than 800000 people killed in the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the country on this day 10 years ago. were viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome it is one of the severest indictments the un's human rights investigator on me and maher says the new military regime is likely committing crimes against humanity with its deadly crackdown on people protesting last month the special ruppert tom andrews told the

un human rights council that the military hunta had murdered at least 70 people and that more than 2000 had been unlawfully detained he's calling for sanctions against the country's military leaders here's more of what he said. as of this moment credible reports indicate that mean more security forces have murdered at least 70 people that a president those murdered were fathers sons mothers daughters husbands and wives they were educators they were engineers they were students they were many ages that were going to half of those murdered were members of generation c. or young people under the age of 20. better president the country of me and more is being controlled by a murderous illegal regime its current leadership to pitch away to the atrocity crimes that are the focus of the charge of genocide before the international criminal court of justice there was the un special rapporteur on me and maher tom andrews speaking there his comments followed news that more protesters had been

killed when security forces opened fire on demonstrators on thursday including in the country's largest city yet gong that left more families mourning the loss of loved ones. she has a son who's 2 months pregnant and a husband who was determined to join protesters on the streets of me and not unnaturally he went to the protest every day even though i asked him not to go. i told him that there would be trouble if something happened to him because we have a child and another baby on the way. but i couldn't stop him i was needed right now let me out i knew that i'm what foods children be raised without a father a husband chipman food shot dead by security forces at a yangon protest. there are no downers he said it was worth dying for now he was worried about people not joining the protest now i say don't democracy will not

return to the country he was worried about democracy now what we get is that he has passed away. the violence isn't slowing down and me and my. peaceful protests are met with the fishes for oppression and water rights group amnesty international is calling a killing spree. more protestors were killed across the country on thursday the bloodshed not intimidating at the demonstrations. my lot i knew that we protest peacefully but they crack down on us violently it's ok the more they crack down the stronger the revolution is we will continue until we win something now that. the protests started last month in response to the military seizing power and detaining civilian leader aung sun suu kyi. the ruling you into my den my serious allegations against her to date without evidence they claim suit she took illegal payments of

$600000.00 us dollars and gold and pay from her party denied the allegations. the military also reiterated that they will remain in power until the new elections are held but haven't offered a date. that isn't good enough for the protesters who have vowed to continue the demonstrations that matter the cost. the european union's medicines regulator has approved the use of the johnson and johnson single shot corona virus vaccine the american vaccine is the 4th to get the go ahead here in the e.u. it's hoped that this will help speed up the e.u.'s slow vaccination role well the johnson and johnson shant is 67 percent effective 2 weeks after inoculation it's already being widely used in the united states. but this news comes as several countries announced that they have stopped using some batches of the astra zeneca

coated 1000 bags seen after reports of some people getting blood clots and denmark has suspended all use of the vaccine until the matter is cleared up here is the danish prime minister that for sure said to do this for me i think it's the right decision to put the astra zeneca vaccines on hold for the time being until we have enough medical reasoning for continuing the vaccinations and of course i'm as upset as everyone else about this and the potential consequences but it's probably too soon to conclude on this matter when there's risk of course it has to be uncovered and put in has saying no to and basically just get it from the algae it's all right for more now i want to turn to washington d.c. and bring in dr eric feingold dean he's an epidemiologist and with the federation of american scientists doctors good to see you again what do you make of denmark suspending the use of the astra zeneca vaccine is that the right move. i think it's a right move in terms of precautionary principle but i don't think it actually was

necessary but i think it's the right thing to do out of out of abundance of caution there's only been about 30 cases of blood clots out of. people vaccinated in the x. kingdom so i think that is a very low rate and in our trials we did not show excess rates a lot so i think this is just an early preliminary investigation depositing it just wildly impressed well isn't there a possibility that they're being overly cautious here because as we've seen in germany concerns about astra zeneca not being effective in people over 65 has resulted in people refusing to be vaccinated so you know how do you weigh public safety against public trust. yeah this is a very tricky thing because every time we. vaccinations it makes the public

nervous about it and i think that is that is a valid concern at the same time i think it's even worse if we didn't pause and later discovered that from our best. there is risk and we should pause so i think in certain ways you know between 2 different avenues of approaches the precautionary principle is still better and the other thing is we do have more vaccines now is not the only back seat and without by suspending it we are stopping all vaccinations no there are still many vaccines that we can use to continue that's never a good point the johnson and johnson bag scene was just approved for use here in the european union today do you think that is going to be the panacea then for this is an incredibly sluggish vaccination rollout that we've been seeing here in europe . yeah the johnson draws the next scene has certain advantages it is so approved as a one shot baxi so no follow up needed so that means in terms of vaccination when

you're fully vaccinated the time window is much shorter and i think also without any freezing or armaments just like seneca johnson also easier transport by the one shot means very little scheduling follow up and much faster and easier logistics i think it's a game changer and i'm very looking forward to having this rule out more countries will quite you know you say that we really do we have a choice of vaccines all around the world it's almost as if there's a competition among vaccines you know you've got some people saying that they only want to take for example the pfizer buying on tech bags and they think that's the best i mean is there a qualitative difference here at all. well i think it's hard to compare oranges because the pfizer biotech vaccine overturn a vaccine were tested much earlier last summer before the rise of perry and return

a much lower epidemic period while for example johnson and johnson the trials were conducted in a much later period and with lot more parrots in fact dominant it's so i think you can't quite compare i actually i think if you do them at the same time you would actually see similar africa see and they're looking at johnson and johnson that scene they have to see seems to grow over time i think that's incredibly promising that with a single this vaccine grows over time i think all the axioms are great and the more importantly the prevent sincere disease very well and prevent death incredibly incredibly practically and those are some of the key things and we're very fortunate to have a choice just one year into this pandemic dr erik joining us tonight from washington doctors always good to see you we appreciate your insights tonight thank you. was

a day marks one year since the world health organization declared a covert 19 pandemic the 1st cases you may remember appeared in the chinese city of rouhani where officials identified a seafood market as the source of the outbreak the virus quickly spread across the world with europe becoming the new epicenter lockdowns and border closures did not contain it and before long almost every part of the world had been infected. we have more on that coming up later in the day let's take a look now at some of the developments today's developments in the pandemic the international olympic committee says it will offer chinese vaccines to athletes in teams preparing for the summer games in tokyo and the winter games in beijing the use drugs regulator is reviewing and anti-body therapy to treat coded 19 the european medicines agency is evaluating 2 substances being developed by u.s. pharmaceutical company eli lilly and richer members of the world trade organization

have blocked and pushed by more than 80 developing countries to waive patent rights in an effort to boost production of vaccines for poor countries. the governor of the u.s. state of texas has loosened kogan 1000 restrictions in response to falling infection numbers all businesses are now allowed to reopen and a state wide mask mandate that has been lifted however some cities concerned at the prospect of a new surge in infections they are continuing to require people to wear face coverings in public but many are already celebrating what they see as a return of their freedom a different kind of texas barbecue on the day they have all been waiting for the mass mandate is history and members of the w.t.f. biker club earn what they think is a symbol of suppression 'd 'd. it is an extremely happy day for us we are elated out here we put this event together

and invited the community to come out and it's been a great turnout and we are all celebrating you know our freedom that's really what this is about. at the university of texas in austin vaccination is under way but with new variant spreading many here think that it's still too early to draw up the mast mandate we're nowhere near herd immunity so. myself i'm going to wear the mask it certainly doesn't mean the pandemic is over and i think it could like we went into another spike i honestly think it was in a smart decision made by i know that things next 2 months march and april are very important and crucial in 2 countries like being able to be more in control and i met a mask or no mask the topic remains hard controversial in texas and it could end up in the courts. the city of austin has issued its own mask mandate and that has led to

a new dispute the state of texas threatened to sue the city of the mayor doesn't drop his mask mandate the question of wearing a mask continues to be a highly divisive topic here in texas and across the united states bar owner taylor . ziebart has reopened his brewery but continues to demand masks for his customers he says the state left him and the hospitality industry alone with the pandemic with announcement it gave us a little bit of power to enforce these rules and it's the onus is on us now to. keep 4 people safe and keep the public safe and we don't really have a you know a last line of defense there and within the state friend or foe for now that w.t.f. i go club members a they've given their masts the ability. to. japan has marked the 10th anniversary of the massive earthquake that set off a tsunami and triggered a meltdown at the fukushima nuclear plant it was the world's worst nuclear disaster

since tour noble and 10 years on its effects are still being felt. that she 46 pm life in japan stood still for one minute. and people in iraqi in the fukushima prefecture jointer remember the moment of horror. i can't believe it's already been 10 years since my grandmother died. when i watch videos of march 11th or when someone says today out loud i think of her enter a member on never see her again. on march 11th 2011 a quake off the east coast of japan released the tsunami it was so powerful it destroyed towns and villages up to 10 kilometers inland more than 15000 people were killed the floods also breached the fukushima nuclear power plant which wasn't

connected to the tsunami warning system important safety systems were missing this led to the collapse of the power supply and the cooling circuit explosions and core meltdowns occurred in 3 reactor units large amounts of radioactivity were released and more than 160000 people had to leave their homes many areas around the nuclear power plant are uninhabitable even to this day and hardly anyone has returned since neighborhoods were rebuilt. on the 10th anniversary of this catastrophe emperor naruhito acknowledge that for many survivors the disaster is still not over. i believe that it is important for all of us to unite our hearts with them and to forever stand with the people from the disaster affected areas and the prime minister assured the nation he will never

forget the lessons learned from the catastrophe. i once again pledge here that we will continue to review with life protecting disaster prevention and mitigation policies. but there is only one thing the prime minister did not promise that japan will phase out nuclear energy. if you want to go to our reporter. who has covered japan and the fukushima disaster for us good evening to you kiyo what would you say how has this catastrophe changed japan well i think it has changed it did not as much as i would have expected public sentiment has shifted i mean a few years after. the chris yuma disaster people were out in the streets and were

protesting that's something that hadn't happened to come to decades purchasing nuclear power and the government and now i think the sentiment has quite died down and i think that's because the government has really tried very hard to normalize the situation i mean you have that the prime minister said we will not forget this is not what they're doing is quite different they are promoting for example fukushima the reason as such for people to come there and get on their kitchen what to eat their produce and they're basically trying to shift the focus away with campaigns like that from what is actually happening which is that the cleanup is not going as much as good as they wanted to and that the catastrophe is still there especially in the region but what about the public's awareness of the dangers of this happening again because there are many nuclear power plants in japan japan is a coastal country earthquake and another tsunami will probably happen at some point

. yes i mean the fear is there and that's why actually 2 sets of the population of japan is against nuclear power and they want to phase out but the thing is the government does not want it as we've had they have not promised that nuclear power is going to be phased out they just say it's going to be safe we need to come up how it's indispensable is what the energy minister actually said for japan to meet its climate targets and they're just saying you know what we're going to give back to business as usual we're going to ramp up the nuclear power percentage in the power mix again so they don't really care as much what the population wants yeah i mean it's it's a disturbing trend after 10 years of living with the results of this disaster what about internationally would you say that the fukushima disaster was

a wake up call for other countries now are nuclear power plants worldwide are they more secure we're. i mean we've seen in germany germany is a very special case but that germany has learned from that disaster and is veering away from nuclear energy i can't really talk about a lot of the international safety standards but what i see is you know who would who should have really learned from the disaster is actually the company that was responsible for the disaster which is tepco and i visited their only other remaining power plant and they assured me this is not going to happen again i'll pop ponds out very very safe like this in the weald and even then. after i visited their power plant i had read up on it and they said that oh it has been reported that there's been so many mishaps it was a fire and signed the nuclear power plant and for example they said yes all of the

safety measures are done now we were done with construction and then actually it turned out that they want there was still a lot of things missing so even tepco the company that was responsible for who she meant didn't learn from fukushima i don't know about the others but i sure hope they learned more then yeah but it sounds like that the japanese are depending on luck more than they are on the safety measures implemented the w.'s kyo with the latest on this 10 year anniversary of the disaster here thank you and as we have heard valves of people died in the earthquake and the tsunami that hit northeastern japan 10 years ago the disaster it hit quickly and it deprived many people a final good bargains with their loved ones now a telephone line is helping survivors cope. cancer yes she says sucky is about to cool his wife his cellphone and. he wants to tell her what

happened the night she died. and it's in this phone booth known as a wind phone that he can speak to her. like thousands of others in japan's devastated coastal communities suck he lost many loved ones in the disaster . this is where he comes to work through his grief but also to tell his wife about their children they'll soon be moving in with their youngest son and that a recent medical checkup showed he's lost weight. this phone booth embraces all of me. this is a place that embraces not only the people who are alive but also all those who have passed away that's how i feel so look i do it on. the phone booth owner says it attracts thousands of visitors now from all over japan. they were

suddenly not able to see their loved ones after they left that morning to go to work or to school so there are many feelings left behind these people would have wanted to say something for the last time had they known they were not going to see them anymore but they can do that. this isn't only a place of solace for the older generation such equal has been bringing her ground sons here since her husband was swept away in the tsunami. like grandpa more well as grandma said it's been 10 years since the earthquake i'll be a junior high school student next year is already in his 2nd year in junior high so he'll be in his 3rd year and he'll be doing high school entrance exams yeah and there's this new virus that's killing lots of people just like the earthquake and tsunami that's why we're wearing masks but we're all doing well. in a good game of. the boys and their grandma feel like he can hear them. and later

when she's alone in this. one husband to keep him all safe from the current virus. the moment you think you're going. because she meant 10 years on sports news no derby football coach you're welcome has held his 1st press conference since announcing this week that he will leave the job after the european championship in june and july he said that 15 years was an eternity for a national coach to stay in the job and that it's time for a change there were very few hints though about his successor or the future of players like thomas mueller. this was the chance for germany coach you know came live to explain his decision to step down it was a lie he was adamant it was not to do with an infamous defeat in his most recent game in charge. last completely

independently of the 6 nil defeat to spain in november and before that i had a little more time to think especially in the time of the pandemic. and i had then decided to really consider my position in february and march of this year. those deliberations led to his decision to walk away after the european championship but he was calling about reports saying forward thomas miller was poised for a recall after he was ditched from the squad 2 years ago. i think the radical changes we made in 2019 were absolutely correct. and i know myself that the players currently in the national team in there are missing a bit of experience here and there. are 2. in the not synonymous

shafts in. these players have on believable potential. potential harm and the german football federation wants a german to replace love but with rb like 6 you leonardo's man the latest top german coach to say he was planning for more club football next season his predecessor at leipzig allow for that nick looks the favorite for the job but the federation is in no rush. you can live. with his decision as heralded a new era and i believe it is the right time. it's been done all this is simplistic and type talked. only there for very frank because yogi you have given as the time to very calmly and carefully prepare for a successor. yet done enough for.

the german f.a. has a big decision to make. the door is not yet open for anyone. it is winter in russia and temperatures go low still not low enough for a russian ballerina your mother you know is going viral with this video shot at minus 15 degrees celsius she took to the frozen gulf of finland dancing a swan scene from swan lake and posted it in protest against plans to build a port because the construction would destroy a beach popular with both people and small it's. after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day tonight one year since the pandemic 10 years since the fukushima nuclear disaster.

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those soon. to be a good. discover who. subscribe to the documentary. when historians chronicle the 21st century the date march 11th 2020 may be the moment when our time reference is changed from b.p. to a peak from before the pandemic to after the pandemic today one year ago the world health organization made it official the corona virus outbreak was no longer national or regional it was global a full blown pandemic.